Thor: Love and Thunder Review

 

Thor: Love and Thunder is a comic book movie based on the Marvel Comics' character Thor. The film is a sequel to 2017's Thor: Ragnarok and the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. The movie's produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Thor: Love and Thunder is written by Taika Waititi and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and directed by Taika Waititi.

The story is after spending time with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor goes onto try to find a more peaceful life. He soon learns of Gorr the God Butcher, and he's plot to eliminate all gods. Now Thor along with his teammates must put an end to Gorr's carnage.

Initial Reaction

Now if any of read my previous post, then you would know that I was very worried about this movie. But I was still willing to give the movie a chance, and hopefully, hopefully be surprised.

Cons

Now having seen the film I can say this with 100% seriousness, and that's there is no point in making a Thor parody film, when this exist. I mean that. Thor doesn't in any shape or form act anything like a legit badass God of thunder. He is nothing but close to a moron. Yes, you could make the argument that he was like that during Thor: Ragnarok all the way to Avengers: Endgame. But at least with that I could with stand, but here not so much. Here he's literally a clown. So much of a clown I'm surprised Gorr even had a tough time fighting him. Then we have the humor...dear God the humor. I went and saw this with a nearly full theater and guess what? Nobody laughed. Nobody! I haven't been in a theater that dead silent in a long time. None of the jokes here work. They all came off as really bad and rejected SNL skits, or more accurately those parody films from the 2000's such as Date Movie or Epic Movie. One of the top 5 dumbest moments was a running gag in where Thor is talking to Mjölnir like an ex-girlfriend and talking to Stormbreaker like it's his current girlfriend....unlike this movie I'm not trying to be desperately funny. That's an actual thing that happens...do you now fully understand why I called Thor a parody of himself from the beginning? The biggest thing that pissed me off about Thor: Love and Thunder is all of those serious moments during the runtime, have no point to them. There's no point to either Jane having cancer or us worrying about Thor or the other gods possibly getting killed, because very early on the movie, we're well aware and knowledgeable enough to know that the moment that scene is the very next second or nanosecond we know that some stupid unfunny joke is gonna rear its ugly head. So if anything those more serious scenes might as well have been cut from the movie completely.

Middle Ground

Now let's talk about Gorr the God Butcher, overall he's a decent villain. There's a good motivation there, but we really needed more scenes of him. That way not would we be getting more Christian Bale, but those extra scenes would've also been a good way to flesh out his character more. Then we have the performances. I really gotta hand to the actors and actresses, they really were trying to do a good job giving the horrible material they had to work with. And that alone is worthy of some credit, even though it's clearly not the greatest performances of all time.

Pros

There's nothing positive to say about this film.

Guys, if Thor: Love and Thunder is this terrible then I don't want anything to do with a Thor 5. What we got from this film was Thor the YouTube parody, painful attempts at comedy, and the more serious scenes have no weight to them because by the end of the movie you're left feeling like they had no purpose in being there. Sure, Gorr and the performances were decent enough, but those two aspects aren't enough to save this movie.

My final rating is Awful!

So yeah, do yourselves a favor, and avoid this movie. Trust me, I'm saving you money. Anyhow, that's all for me. Come back on Monday, Jul 11th, for a special announcement. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.